Senior DevOps Engineer

Talcom BV; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% holiday allowance

12-month contract

Potential extension to permanent role

Job summary

Talcom BV in Amsterdam is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and operate scalable, enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and cloud-native operations, with on-call responsibilities and collaboration with software engineering and data teams.

The candidate should be hands-on, comfortable with operating production infrastructure at scale, and able to communicate complex decisions across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and automation
• Experience managing enterprise-scale infrastructure
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
• Strong Linux-based infrastructure knowledge
• Experience with security and IAM in cloud environments
• Experience with AI/ML compute infrastructure an asset

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and improve AWS-based infrastructure
• Build and optimise CI/CD and GitOps workflows
• Manage Kubernetes environments and deployments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code
• Improve system reliability, scalability and availability
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability solutions
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis
• Support deployments across internal and customer environments
• Maintain infrastructure security and cloud IAM standards
• Support compute infrastructure used by engineering and AI/ML workloads
• Identify maintenance requirements proactively
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical incidents

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

Automation

Observability

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitLab CI

Argo CD

GitOps

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Linux

Job description

Talcom is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer for a growing technology company operating in the cybersecurity space.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps or Platform Engineer who has worked with complex, enterprise-scale infrastructure and is comfortable taking ownership of cloud environments, deployment processes, reliability and automation.

This is a hands‑on engineering role with a strong focus on AWS, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and cloud-native operations.

The Role

You will work closely with software engineering and data teams to build, maintain and improve scalable infrastructure and deployment environments.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, maintain and improve AWS-based infrastructure
• Build and optimise CI/CD and GitOps workflows
• Manage Kubernetes environments and application deployments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code
• Improve system reliability, scalability and availability
• Implement monitoring, logging and observability solutions
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis
• Support deployments across internal and customer environments
• Maintain infrastructure security and cloud IAM standards
• Support compute infrastructure used by engineering and AI/ML workloads
• Identify infrastructure maintenance requirements proactively
• Participate in an on‑call rotation for critical incidents

Technical Requirements

We are looking for strong hands‑on experience with:

• AWS, particularly EC2, EKS, S3, IAM and VPC
• Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling
• GitLab CI and/or Argo CD
• GitOps practices
• Grafana, Prometheus and/or AWS CloudWatch
• Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch
• Cloud networking and security
• Linux-based infrastructure

Experience with the following is highly valuable:

• Apache Kafka and event‑driven architectures
• Java, Python or Go
• AWS cost optimisation / FinOps
• AI/ML compute infrastructure

What We Are Looking For

You should be comfortable independently troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues and designing solutions that can be maintained and used by multiple engineering teams.

Previous experience operating production infrastructure at enterprise scale is particularly important.

You should also be comfortable communicating technical decisions, documenting infrastructure clearly and working across engineering teams.

Location

The role is based in Amsterdam and follows a hybrid working model, with approximately 2–3 days per week in the office.

Package

• €80,000 – €110,000 gross annual salary
• 8% holiday allowance included in the annual salary
• Initial 12-month employment contract with the intention to extend and potentially move to a permanent contract